Archive for the 'film' Category

Ready? OK! At the Alamo Drafthouse

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Film still from Ready? OK! [source]
I have been a volunteer at OutYouth (a non-profit providing services to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning and ally youth in the central Texas area) for quite some time. One of the things I have done as a volunteer is work on film programming for the drop-in center. […]

The Unbearable Whiteness of Cheerleading

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Queen bees go head-to-head in Bring It On: All or Nothing. [source]
As is often the case when I find myself any place where cable is readily available. I stayed up entirely too late last night watching television, sucked into a movie I would have never deliberately viewed. Last night, the film in question was Bring […]

Snakes on a Monday-to-Friday Plane

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Excerpt form the television edit of Snakes on a Plane.
This is more or less exactly what is wrong with television: monkeyfighting snakes on a monday-to-friday plane.

The Informers about to hit screens

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Trailer for the Informers. [source]
The above trailer is for the latest cinematic adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis book, the Informers. As an undergraduate, I did some fairly significant research on Bret Easton Ellis’s work, and believed at one point that his work was the sort of thing I would study in graduate school. Through […]

John Waters on censorship

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

John Waters gives a concise history of censorship, that is (of course) fabulously filthy and utterly hilarious. I have nothing to add to this video, really. It’s just too perfect. I aspire to one day be even fractionally as funny.